Hello everyone! Jared Smith here with the Charleston weather forecast for Monday, February 26th, 2024 and the upcoming week ahead.

Sunday’s chill yields to a much warmer few days to start the new week and close out February.

After chilly start in the upper 30s, temperatures on Monday will rise into the low 70s, several degrees warmer than we reached on Sunday thanks to plenty of sunshine and winds starting to go southerly as surface high pressure moves offshore.

The warming trend continues through midweek, with lows in the low 50s on Tuesday yielding to highs in the mid 70s in the afternoon, and the warmth will peak on Wednesday, which starts well above late February normals, thinking upper 50s, before temperatures make a run at 80 degrees in the afternoon despite a mix of sun and clouds.

A cold front will come through overnight Wednesday, which could bring a few showers to the area for Thursday morning, but the bigger impact will be to temperatures.

After nearing 80 degrees on Wednesday, temperatures will only top out in the mid 60s on Thursday, making for more of a climatologically appropriate leap day as high pressure wedges into the area.

And this wedge should keep temperatures on the cool side of normal as we start March.

But there is a wrinkle to the forecast, and that wrinkle is the potential for an area of low pressure to form off the coast Friday into the weekend.

Guidance is very mixed on how this evolves around timing and intensity and location, and that throws quite a bit of uncertainty into the forecast as a result, affecting both the rain and temperature forecast.

So, rain is certainly possible, but its evolution in intensity is far from a slam dunk at this point, so you want to keep an eye on forecast updates as we head towards the weekend as a result, as details are fine-tuned.

And that was Charleston Weather Daily for February 26, 2024.

I’m Jared Smith.

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Thanks for listening, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.